It really depends how far you can go with redefining a word.
This will be especially difficult because I imagine if you asked 10 HN readers what their personal definition of a "hacker" was you would probably get 10 different definitions.
If you are trying to imply a "hacker" as somebody who is in someway superior to the average software dev then what criteria would you put in place?
What is to stop any kid who read a bunch of PHP tutorials and can put together a simple blog app from calling him/herself a hacker?
This will be especially difficult because I imagine if you asked 10 HN readers what their personal definition of a "hacker" was you would probably get 10 different definitions.
If you are trying to imply a "hacker" as somebody who is in someway superior to the average software dev then what criteria would you put in place?
What is to stop any kid who read a bunch of PHP tutorials and can put together a simple blog app from calling him/herself a hacker?